Listed below are the 45 U.S. presidents and their age as they began their terms in office.

Use a statistical software package such as Excel or Minitab to help answer the following questions.

a. Determine the mean, median, and standard deviation.

b. Determine the first and third quartiles.

c. Develop a box plot. Are there any outliers? Do the amounts follow a symmetric distribution or are they skewed? Justify your answer.

d. Organize the distribution of ages into a frequency distribution.

e. Write a brief summary of the results in parts a to d.

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Number Name Age Number Name Age 1 Washington 57 24 Cleveland 55 J. Adams 61 25 McKinley T. Roosevelt 54 3 Jefferson 57 26 42 Madison 57 27 Taft 51 Monroe 58 28 Wilson 56 J. Q. Adams Harding Coolidge 57 29 55 7 Jackson 61 30 51 Van Buren 54 31 Hoover 54 W. H. Harrison F. D. Roosevelt 68 32 51 10 Tyler Polk 51 33 Truman 60 11 49 34 Eisenhower 62 12 Taylor 64 35 Kennedy 43 13 Fillmore 50 36 L. B. Johnson 55 14 Pierce 48 37 Nixon 56 15 Buchanan 65 38 Ford 61 16 Lincoln 52 39 Carter 52 17 A. Johnson 56 40 Reagan 69 18 G. H. W. Bush Grant 46 41 64 19 Hayes 54 42 Clinton 46 20 Garfield 49 43 G. W. Bush 54 21 Arthur 50 44 Obama 47 22 Cleveland 47 45 Trump 70 23 B. Harrison 55